August: Osage County

A house is most emphatically not a home in Tracy Letts' August: Osage County. In a Broadway season highlighted by new plays, including the homegrown The Farnsworth Invention and the made-in-the-UK Rock ‘n’ Roll and The Seafarer, none has attracted as much attention as this import from the venerable Steppenwolf Theatre Company. The ecstatic reviews and brisk box office that greeted the show last summer in Chicago have been repeated in New York, which welcomed the mega-dysfunctional Weston ...